www.Anvita.Info
The goal of Anvita.info is to create a semantic wiki so that clinical decision support systems can pose questions of the entire wiki and receive answers in realtime. This is analogous to a search engine, excepting that actual computed answers are returned, versus links to URLs for additional research. Wolfram Alpha is a great example of a company (Wolfram Research, which I have greatly admired since 1991) that is working to do this in the general consumer space. This is an enormous undertaking: however, at Anvita we propose to do it at a very deep level within a single domain (medical knowledge). The end results could be interesting.
...is a computable semantic wiki. This I believe represents a new way of approaching medical knowledge. This alpha wiki is really a database that appears to be a wiki (human readable) but is also computable (unlike Wikipedia). So, for example, one cannot pose a question of Wikipedia like "How many U.S. congress members are female?" This is despite the fact that every female congresswoman has a Wikipedia entry that states she is female. However, a semantic wiki could answer this kind of arbitrary query.
The goal of Anvita.info is to create a semantic wiki so that clinical decision support systems can pose questions of the entire wiki and receive answers in realtime. This is analogous to a search engine, excepting that actual computed answers are returned, versus links to URLs for additional research. Wolfram Alpha is a great example of a company (Wolfram Research, which I have greatly admired since 1991) that is working to do this in the general consumer space. This is an enormous undertaking: however, at Anvita we propose to do it at a very deep level within a single domain (medical knowledge). The end results could be interesting.
Ahmed Ghouri M.D.
